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Melissa Firman's avatar

Love these questions so much! I may use them as prompts for my book journal. I understand so well about the dilemma of your reading being dictated by others (i.e., books received by authors or publishers). When I was doing freelance book reviews, I was absolutely inundated with ARCs and had to do some serious thinking about monetizing a hobby I loved. I eventually stopped and since then have read what I liked (although I do still cave to the occasional popular read at times).

Careless People--oof. That was something else. My Facebook and Instagram usage went way down after reading that one.

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Heather G.'s avatar

This was such a lovely reading check-in, thanks for sharing. My Storygraph pie chart looks similar, a lot of emotional and reflective reads. I'm glad my hopeful, funny, and informative slices are a little larger than last year and hope to keep it up in the second half of the year. We're doing great!

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